Draw Something gets Zynga-fied

What, you thought Zynga was going to spend $200 million for OMGPOP and then leave it alone?

Global sensation “Draw Something” began its gradual process of Zynga-fication on Wednesday, as the San Francisco social gaming giant unveiled a raft of new social features on the “Pictionary”-style game.

Among the big new features, many of which were top requests of the game’s players:

Share your drawings on Facebook and Twitter with a couple taps

Send messages through the game, instead of scrawling out a message in the “Draw Something” window and then trashing it. (Or scrawling out a message in the “Draw Something” window, think you’re trashing it, but accidentally hit the “send” button, and then have to send a message to your friend Juli on Facebook explaining what happened and that actually the word you were supposed to be drawing was “Mexico.” Not that that would ever happen to you.)

AN UNDO BUTTON. For when you go to make a tiny little stroke but forget that your brush was the wrong color and three sizes too big at that moment and now your drawing is ruined. Praise the Lord.

Hardcore players can now have streaks of up to 999, although they may want to consider leaving the house.

Jokes aside, Zynga really has given “Draw Something” players much of what they wanted to see out of the app with this free update. The larger question — whether “Draw Something” will have staying power once it’s no longer the viral game of the moment — remains to be answered.